On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:28:03 +0000, Doctor John wrote:

> Warp wrote:
>> Doctor John <doc### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>>> In amongst the detritus I found a Toshiba T-1850 laptop.
>> 
>>   It seems to be a 386, so linux should install just fine. Even X might
>> work with some light window manager (avoid KDE and Gnome). Likewise
>> POV-Ray should compile and might even run without running out of
>> memory. It will be slow like h***, but I don't think DKB-trace would be
>> any faster either. :P
>> 
> 25 MHz 386SX, 4MB RAM, 60 MB Disk, 9.5" Mono screen :-)
> 
> You're probably right about going the linux route but which kernel? I
> know for certain that it won't run 2.6.22 :-))

I'd probably go with a 2.0 or a 2.2 kernel - something like DSL or one of 
the other minimalist Linux distros should come with one of those older 
kernels.

Jim

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